Check out new layered, abstract art exhibit in Lake Oswego

A new art exhibit in Lake Oswego featuring textured and abstract landscapes will kick off with an opening reception from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17 at ARTspace at 380 A Avenue, according to a press release from the Arts Council of Lake Oswego.

The ACLO welcomes Washington natives Jean Isamu Nagai and Ash Wyatt to display their work at the exhibit, which will run from Feb. 17 to March 10.

“Nagai and Wyatt's work features highly textured, abstracted landscapes where temporal forms come into and out of view, like the shape-shifting of clouds in the sky or seeing a rabbit on the moon. Both artists engage in meditative or trance-like processes of repetitive mark-making,” the press release reads.

Wyatt, according to the press release, uses soft materials like horsehair, wool, cotton and linens to create stoic images that forge “a deep connection to ancestry and nature.”

Nagai, meanwhile, creates paintings featuring dots representing a moment in time that combine, “amassing into a vibrating field of interconnected points.”

“Subtle connections to the natural environment imbue this seemingly non-representational work with inferences of ant colonies and mycorrhizal mushroom networks,” the press release reads.